FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – The Environmental Protection Agency is responding to critics who say that rolling back coal and oil regulations will damage the environment. In 2024, former President Joe Biden issued an executive order, upping standards for the coal and oil industries that had been in place since 2012. The Trump administration has now undone that move, taking regulations…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Public Library is now offering radon testing kits to check out at any library location. They have thirty reusable kits available. It’s thanks to a partnership with UND Connect. It is reported that North Dakota has 63% of homes with an elevated radon level above the EPA Action Level of 4.0, leading to higher risks…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company’s oil and gas operations in the Forth Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice said the settlement requires Marathon to reduce climate- and health-harming emissions from those facilities and…
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency cleared the way Friday for a higher blend of ethanol to be sold nationwide for the third summer in a row, citing global conflicts that it says are putting pressure on the world’s fuel supply. The agency announced an emergency waiver that will exempt gasoline blended with 15% ethanol from an existing summertime ban. Gasoline…
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — Fergus Falls homeowners can expect a city employee to stop by their house to make sure there’s no lead in your water pipes. The city of Fergus Falls says 400 homes built before 1985 will need a visual check to see what material the water pipe service lines are made of. City officials have already…
FARGO (KVRR) – Sen. John Hoeven announced a $2 million federal grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to support the redevelopment of the aging Lashkowitz High Rise in downtown Fargo. Hoeven says the grant will help ensure the city has the funding it needs to remove asbestos at the site. The asbestos remediation is expected to take about 80 days….
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — North Dakota Industrial Commission has awarded $3.4 million in federal funding for the demolition and redevelopment of the Lashkowitz High Rise in Fargo. The funding comes from HUD’s Housing Trust Fund, which provides funding to states for affordable housing development. Earlier this year, Sen. John Hoeven joined local leaders to tour the high rise and talk…
MAPLETON, N.D. (KVRR) – Five billion dollars from the infrastructure law signed by President Biden last year will be given to schools to buy electric buses. Two thousand school districts nationwide will get electric buses. Mapleton is one of four in North Dakota to get one as part of the first round of grants totaling $1 billion dollars. The first…
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — North Dakota’s Republican leaders are praising the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against the EPA. The court said that the Clean Air Act does not give the EPA broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. North Dakota was one of 20 states that petitioned with West Virginia. “North Dakota…
BISMARCK, N.D. – A Colorado company has agreed to settle Clean Water Act violations stemming from the company’s oil production activities in North Dakota. The Environmental Protection Agency says Phoenix Petroleum LLC has agreed to pay a $50,000 penalty as part of the settlement. The EPA says inspections of two of the company’s tank batteries in Divide and Williams counties…
